books by Mark Stein

books by Mark Stein

books:

Mark Stein

Beautiful/Ugly: African and Diaspora Aesthetics

Duke University Press, 2006

In Cameroon, a monumental ?statue of liberty? is made from scrap metal. In Congo, a thriving popular music incorporates piercing screams and carnal dances. When these and other instantiations of the aesthetics of Africa and its diasporas are taken into account, how are ideas of beauty reconfigured? Scholars and artists take up that question in ...

Machine Age to Jet Age, Volume 2: Radiomania's Guide to Tabletop Radios 1930-1959 (Machine Age to Jet Age)
Mark V. Stein

Radiomania Publishing, 1997

Machine Age to Jet Age is a continuing series which documents, pictures and provides market values for collectible vintage radios. Each volume is a supplement/companion to the others in the series, with all different items in each. Radios are individually pictured, described and valued, and are organized by manufacturer and model number. This ...

The Complete Price Guide to Antique Radios : The Sears Silvertone Catalogs 1930-1942
Mark V. Stein

Radiomania Books, 2001

AVAILABLE NOW From the publisher of America's #1 RADIO PRICE GUIDES, 'The Complete Price Guide to Antique Radios: The Sears Silvertone Catalogs 1930-1942', by Mark V. Stein. This is the first and only comprehensive reference, realized with special permission permission from Sears, Roebuck & Co. Featuring full reproductions of all the Sears ...

The Collector's Guide to 20th Century Modern Clocks: Desk, Shelf and Decorative (The Collector¬s Guide to ...
Mark V. Stein

Radiomania Books, 2000

The first reference/price guide to focus exclusively on 20th Century Modern American clocks. Over 2,300 clocks (including manual, electric, alarm, chime, novelty) are catalogued with more than 1,600 pictures. The book encompasses early industrial, machine age, moderne, art deco, streamline and mid-century modern design styles. Also included are ...

Abu Ghraib: The Politics of Torture (The Terra Nova Series)

David Levi Strauss, Charles Stein

North Atlantic Books, 2004

Great, very thought provoking
These group of essays methodically and from a variety of view points attempt to show just how damaging the infamous photos and the acts of depravity they have exposed are. The book also explores the collective conscience and political climate that has existed in order ...

America's Best Idea: A Photographic Journey Through Our National Parks
Stan Jorstad

Yosemite Association, 2006

This photographic journey through our National Parks takes you on a visual tour of America's most special natural and cultural places. Arranged in chronological order from the year that each park received protection as public land, America's Best Idea provides you with a history of names, dates and designations of all national parks in the United ...

Lifting Belly
Gertrude Stein

Naiad Pr, 1989

A rose is a rose is lifting belly is Gertrude Stein, a loving one. If you've read Stein before, you have probably heard the term "stream-of-consciousness." This erotic lesbian love poem is also a stream of pleasure and of love. Rebecca Mark's excellent introduction helps unravel some of the wonderful wordplay that Stein employs. Lifting ...

Cathedral & Tombstone Radios
Mark V. Stein

Sonoran Pub, 2008

In the 1930s radio manufacturers turned their attention to designing stylish radio cabinets that would look attractive in the home, a big improvement over the boxy radio cabinets of the 1920s. Cathedral shaped and tombstone shaped wood table radios were popular throughout the decade, and are featured here in this identification and price guide for ...

How the States Got Their Shapes

Mark Stein

Collins, 2008

how the states got their shapes
This is a splendid book shipped promptly and well-packaged. I have bought four copies now. One for me and three for gifts. A good read for young and old.[ASIN:0061431389 How the States Got Their Shapes]]

Machine Age to Jet Age III: Radiomania's Guide to Tabletop Radios (1930-1962)
Mark V. Stein

Radiomania Books, 1999

Machine Age to Jet Age is a continuing series which documents, pictures and provides market values for collectible vintage radios. Each volume is a supplement/companion to the others in the series, with all different items in each. Radios are individually pictured, described and valued, and are organized by manufacturer and model number. This ...

Tabletop Radios, Volume 4 (The Complete Price Guide to Antique Radios)
Mark V. Stein

Radiomania Books, 2003

America's No.1 vintage radio identification and price guide series has been further expanded with a fourth volume. This new reference supplements the current three volumes with over 2,500 new listings and 1500 illustrations. In keeping with our new and expanded format, icons indicate Canadian radios, Ingraham cabinets, World?s Fair models and ...

Human Factors in Air Traffic Control

Academic Press, 1998

this book is for engineers
I'm merely an air traffic control student, but i've had this book assigned by a professor and it's my assesment that it is intended more for the benefit of air traffic management systems engineers than for those looking to gain a basic working knowledge of current ...

Guarding the Frontier: Ottoman Border Forts and Garrisons in Europe (Library of Ottoman Studies)
Mark L. Stein

Tauris Academic Studies, 2007

The seventeenth-century Ottoman-Habsburg frontier was the scene of chronic conflict. The defences of both empires were based on a line of fortresses, spanning the border. Mark Stein gives us a fascinating insight into everyday life on the frontier in this turbulent time, by investigating the social, economic and military aspects of Ottoman forts ...

Machine Age to Jet Age 1933-1959 with Market Values - 2001 Update Edition (Vol 1)
Mark V. Stein

Radiomania Books, 1994

MACHINE AGE TO JET AGE Vol. I 1933-1959 Revised 2nd Edition, Radiomania's Guide to Tabletop Radios with 2001 updated market values, by Mark V. Stein, noted authority on art deco and machine age radios. Machine Age to Jet Age is a continuing series which documents, pictures and provides market values for collectible vintage radios. Each volume is a ...

Krueck and Sexton: Work in Progress (Works in Progress)

Ronald Krueck, Mark Sexton

Monacelli, 1997

In the intellectual path of Mies
An artifact capturing the trajectory of etheral spatialization begun by Mies, spontaneously and without apparent precedent over 60 years ago. Krueck's early projects bear testament to the pure potential of the lyrical study of architectural space conducted 50 years ...